Bruno Mantovani

The work was commissioned by Musique Nouvelle en Liberté, and I composed it during my residency at Edenkoben in Germany, from August to September 1999. Although it uses some of the formal procedures o...

pour six instruments: Flute Clarinette Piano Violon Alto Violoncelle

Although Les Danses interrompues may be played as separate entity, they were conceived as a transition between two other works written in 1998 and 1999 respectively, Jazz Connotation and D'un Rêve par...

Quite frequently I feel the need to write a work for a solo instrument. Generally this happens after I have composed a work for a large group, in contrast to which a solo piece demands more immediate...

Quintet. Instrumentation: fl(pic&flA) / hb(ca) / hp / vib / vla

When I composed Le Sette Chiese in 2002, this piece was the only one of its kind among my works, in numerous respects: as regards the length, the artists (a large ensemble split into four spatially se...

L'ère de rien (the title is a pun in French, its meaning 'the era of nothing' being homophonous with an idiomatic French phrase meaning 'nonchalantly', 'cascually') could be termed an 'exotic' work, s...

For a special concert at Carnegie Hall in 2005, the New York based Ensemble Sospeso decided to commission short chamber music pieces from several composers in homage to Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday....

The desire to write Streets surfaced in May 2005, while I was walking through the streets of New York. The density of simultaneous human activity was such that it was almost impossible for me to isola...

Recording: - 1 CD Kairos, KAI00127222 Le Sette Chiese - Streets - Eclair de Lune Ircam, ensemble intercomtemporain, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

Si près, si loin (d'une fantaisie)So near, so far (from a fantasy) The initial motivation of this piece, composed in 2006, was to join two problematics which I have been working on since my earliest c...